Education. Professional Experience and Employment History

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1 Mary M. Flaherty, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Speech and Hearing Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 608 E Springfield Ave, Champaign IL Phone: ; maryflah@illinois.edu Education Degree Awarding Institution Date Specialty Postdoctoral Boys Town National Research Hospital 01/2016 Human Auditory Development Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo 02/2016 Cognitive Psychology M.A. SUNY Buffalo 05/2013 Psychology B.Sc. University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown 05/2007 Psychology Professional Experience and Employment History Assistant professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL Postdoctoral fellow, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha NE Graduate Student Lecturer, Department of Psychology, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Supervisor of Comparative Bioacoustics Laboratory, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Adjunct Lecturer of Psychology, Trocaire College, Buffalo, NY Data Administrator & Clinical Research Assistant, UPMC Magee Women s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA Honors and Awards 2018 Mentored Research Travel Award funded by National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, American Auditory Society 2017 NIH Pediatric Loan Repayment Program funding by National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award, Association for Research in Otolaryngology 2016 Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Assoc Excellence in Teaching Award, SUNY Buffalo 2015 Excellence in Teaching Award, SUNY Buffalo 2014 Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award, SUNY Buffalo Mentoring Experience 2017 Co-mentor of Audiology Student Trainee, Frequency Discrimination in Preschoolers and School-Age Children, Boys Town National Research Hospital 1

2 2014 Undergraduate Psychology Association, Guest Speaker, On Becoming a Graduate Student, University at Buffalo 2013 Undergraduate Honors Project Mentor (Jacqueline White), Psychological Statistics, University at Buffalo 2013 Undergraduate Honors Project Mentor (Megan Rosen), Biology Honors, University at Buffalo 2013 Black Student Union's Annual Leadership Workshop, Mentor & Representative for Psychology Department, University at Buffalo Other Experience and Professional Memberships 2018 Session Chair, Tools and Technology for Speech Research, 175 th meeting of Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN 2018 Lessons for Success, Grant Writing and Professional Development Workshop, ASHA s Research Mentoring Network, 2018 Acoustics School, Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN 2017 Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 2016 Professional Grant Development Workshop, Univ. of Nebraska, Omaha Member of Association for Research in Otolaryngology 2011 Application Review Council Member, Mark Diamond Research Fund, SUNY Buffalo Bibliography Refereed Articles Rose, J., Flaherty, M., Browning, J., Leibold, L.J., Buss, E. (2018) Pure-tone frequency discrimination in preschoolers, young school-age children, and adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-6. Buss, E., Flaherty, M. M., & Leibold, L. J. (2017). Development of frequency discrimination at 250 Hz is similar for tone and /ba/ stimuli. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(1), EL150-EL154. Flaherty, M., Dent, M. L., Sawusch, J. R. (2017). Experience with speech sounds is not necessary for cue trading by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). PlosOne, (12) 5, Dent, M. L., Martin, A. K., Flaherty, M. M., Neilans, E. G. (2016). Cues for auditory stream segregation of birdsong in budgerigars and zebra finches: Effects of location, timing, amplitude, and frequency. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, (139) 2, Flaherty, M. and Sawusch, J. (2013) How robust are lexical effects on phonetic categorization? POMA 19,

3 Mullennix, J.W., Stern, S.E., Grounds, B., Kalas, R., Flaherty, M., Kowalok, S., May, E., & Tessmer, B. (2010) Earwitness memory: Distortions for voice pitch and speaking rate. Applied Cognitive Psychology (24) 4, In Press or Submitted Articles Flaherty, M. M., Buss, E., & Leibold, L.J. (2018) Developmental effects in children s ability to benefit from F0 differences between target and masker speech. Ear and Hearing, in press. Browning, J., Buss, E., Flaherty, M., Leibold, L. J. (2018) An evaluation of integrated directionality and noise reduction hearing aid signal processing on masked speech recognition for children who are hard of hearing. American Journal of Audiology, under review. Oral Presentations and/or Abstracts Flaherty, M., Leibold, L. J., Buss, E. (2018) Children s ability to benefit from fundamental frequency and vocal tract length differences during speech-in-speech recognition. Poster presented at 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis Minnesota, May Browning, J., Flaherty, M. (2018) How can we improve children s understanding of speech in complex environments? Talk presented at Boys Town National Research Center, Smart Lunch 2018, Omaha, NE. Flaherty, M., Browning, J., Buss, E., Leibold, L. J. (2018) Target/masker differences in F0: Effects of age and hearing loss. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March Rose, J., Flaherty, M., Browning, J., Leibold, L.J., Buss, E. (2018) Pure-tone frequency discrimination in preschoolers, school-age children, and adults. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March Flaherty, M., Dent, M. L., Sawusch, J.R. (2017) Experience with speech sounds does not influence cue trading by budgerigars. Podium presentation at the 4 th Annual International Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals, Omaha, NE, July Browning, J., Flaherty, M., Leibold, L. J., Buss, E. (2017) Integrated directionality and noise reduction: Effects on children s masked thresholds. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March

4 Flaherty, M., Leibold, L. J., Buss, E. (2016) Effect of temporal asynchrony on children s detection performance in a random-frequency, multi-tonal masking task. Poster presented at the International Congress on Acoustics Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI, November Flaherty, M. (2016) Benefit of F0 separation between target and masker for children with and without hearing loss. Talk presented at Boys Town National Research Hospital, Auditory Jam Conference, Omaha, NE, June Flaherty, M., Sawusch, J., Dent, M. (2015) Speech experience and cue trading in budgerigars. (Melopsittacus undulatus). Poster presented at the International Congress on Acoustics Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, May Carter, D., Tronolone, A., Cheruvil, A., Asif, K., Flaherty, M. & Dent, M. (2015). The role of speech experience on cue trading in parakeets. Poster presented at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference at The College at Brockport, SUNY. April Rosen, M., Flaherty, M., and Dent, M. (2014) The role of experience in the use of speech cues by budgerigars. Poster presented at the Biology Honors Symposium, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. May Dent, M. Neilans, E., Flaherty, M., Martin, A. (2013) Auditory scene analysis in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Poster presented at the International Congress on Acoustics Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Montreal, Quebec, June Flaherty, M. and Sawusch, J. (2013) How robust are lexical effects on phonetic categorization? Poster presented at the International Congress on Acoustics Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Montreal, Quebec, June Flaherty, M. (2012) Auditory scene analysis in budgerigars and zebra finches. Poster presented at the Annual Behavior and Brain Sciences Symposium, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. June Flaherty, M., Neilans, E., Garcia, K., Dent, M. (2012). Auditory stream segregation of Conspecific and heterospecific sounds in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and zebra finches (Taeniopygia Guttata). Poster presented at the Annual Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Diego, CA. February Flaherty, M. and Sawusch, J. (2010) Phoneme perception and the structure of lexical neighborhoods. Poster presented at the Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November

5 Stern, S., Mullennix, J., Flaherty, M., Grounds, B., Hutchison, E., & Steinhauser, E. (2008). Stereotypes of physically and speech disabled persons as detected with partially structured attitude measures. Paper presented at the International Congress of Psychology Conference, Berlin, July Stern, S. E., Mullennix, J. W., Steinhauser, E. F., Horvath, D., & Flaherty, M. (2007). Partially structured attitude measures used to examine stereotypes of the disabled. Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, Memphis, TN. Flaherty, M., Hutchison, E., & Kowalok, S. (2007). Partially structured attitude measure of stereotypes of disabled? Is it valid? Poster presented at the 10 th Annual Laurel Highlands Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Johnstown, PA, April Stern, S. E., Mullennix, J. W., Steinhauser, E. F., Horvath, D., & Flaherty, M. (2007). Partially structured attitude measures used to examine stereotypes of the disabled. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN, January Steinhauser, E., Flaherty, M., Cole, T., Horvath, D., & Davis, A. (2006). A pilot study: Systematic perceptions of stereotype bias on the disabled community. Poster presented at the 9 th Annual Laurel Highlands Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Johnstown, PA, April, Teaching Record Fall 2018 Fall 2015 Fall 2015 Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Instructor, Quantitative Reasoning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 26 graduate students Instructor, Psychological Statistics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo NY 240 undergraduate students Instructor, Introduction to Psychology, Trocaire College, Buffalo NY 3 separate sections: Section 1 (15 students), Section 2 (21 students), Section 3 (25 students) Instructor, Introduction to Psychology, Trocaire College, Buffalo NY 2 separate sections: Section 1 (10 students) & Section 2 (6 students) Instructor, Psychological Statistics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo NY 220 undergraduate students Summer 2014 Instructor, Psychological Statistics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo NY 40 undergraduate students 5

6 Fall 2013 Instructor, Psychological Statistics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo NY 230 undergraduate students Summer 2013 Instructor, Psychological Statistics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo NY 70 undergraduate students Fall 2012 Instructor, Psychological Statistics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo NY 140 undergraduate students Summer 2012 Instructor, Psychological Statistics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo NY 45 undergraduate students Grants Completed Research Support The NIH/NIDCD is funding The benefit derived from acoustic voice differences for speech-inspeech recognition in school-age children (January 2018 January 2019), an F32 (DC ) providing $56,694 across the funding period. Role: Principal Investigator The NIH-NIDCD funded Research in Human Communication and its Disorders. This grant (July 2015-June 2020), a T32 (DC ) provides institutional training support for three postdoctoral fellows. (PI: Doug Keefe) Role: Postdoctoral Fellow The Mark Diamond Research Fund funded The role of experience in the use of speech cues by budgerigars (April 2014 March 2015), a dissertation grant (SP-14-04) providing $2000 across the funding period. Role: Principal Investigator 6